Madrid
Madrid
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Sights
* Basilica de San Francisco El Grande
* Basilica de San Miguel
* Botín
* Calle de Serrano
* Casa de América
* Casa Museo de Lope de Vega
* Casa de la Villa
* Casón del Buen Retiro
* Catedral de La Almundena
* Catedral de San Isidro
* Centro Cultural Conde Duque
* Convento de las Carboneras
* Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida
* Estadio Santiago Bernabéu (Bernabéu Stadium)
* Iglesia de las Calatravas
* Iglesia de Las Salesas
* Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol
* Iglesia y Convento de las Trinitarias
* Mercado de San Miguel
* Monasterio de la Encarnación
* Museo Arqueológico Nacional
* Museo Nacional de Antropología
* Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
* Museo De La Real Academia De Bellas Artes De San Fernando
* Museo Cerralbo
* Museo Chicote
* Museo del Ejército
* Museo Naval
* Museo Romántico
* Museo Del Traje
* Palacio de Comunicaciones
* Palacio de las Cortes
* The Paseos
* Plaza de la Cibeles
* Plaza de Toros de las Ventas
* Puerta del Sol
* Puerta de Toledo
* El Rastro (Rastro Flea Market)
* Real Fábrica de Tapices
* Real Jardín Botánico
* Teleférico
* Telefónica
Excursions
+ Excursions
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Do not miss )
Sunday would not be Sunday without a visit to the Rastro Flea Market. This sprawl of stalls attracts as many locals as visitors, even if they have no intention of buying anything. Start at the Plaza de Cascorro, with its statue of El Cascorro (Eloy Gonzalo), a 19th-century hero of the Spanish-American war in Cuba. The stalls here sell leather bags, weird crafts and perfumes of dubious origin. Once you reach the trees that shade Calle de la Ribera de Curtidores, the quality improves, with shops making solid furniture and wrought-iron weather vanes. Bars and pastry shops along the street are also open. In a courtyard, through an ancient arch, is the Galerías Piquer, a complex of 50 antiques shops selling everything from clocks to oriental furniture. Explore side streets such as Calle de San Cayetano, Calle de Rodas and Calle de Fray Ceferino González,for art equipment and picture frames, bird cages and fishing nets.
Address: Calle de Ribera de Curtidores
Hours: Sun, public hols am
Restaurant: Plenty near by (Inexpensive)
Metro: La Latina, Puerta de Toledo
Other: Puerta de Toledo
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